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sushi

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Registered: 2019-04-22

Posts: 100

[Solved] Element <value> not allowed inside <property>

Hello,

By looking the boot logs I saw :

xfconfd[823]: Error parsing xfconf config file "/home/myself/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml": Element <value> not allowed inside <property>

Which refers to :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<channel name="xfce4-session" version="1.0">
  <property name="general" type="empty">
    <property name="FailsafeSessionName" type="empty"/>
    <property name="LockCommand" type="empty"/>
    <property name="SessionName" type="string" value="Default"/>
    <property name="SaveOnExit" type="bool" value="false"/>
  </property>
  <property name="sessions" type="empty">
    <property name="Failsafe" type="empty">
      <property name="IsFailsafe" type="empty"/>
      <property name="Count" type="empty"/>
      <property name="Client0_Command" type="empty"/>
      <value type="string" value="compiz"/>    ««««««««««««««««
      </property>

How to set this "value" properly to still use compiz ?

Thank you.

Last edited by sushi (2026-09-16 15:15:02)

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 12,704

Re: [Solved] Element <value> not allowed inside <property>

If you are to use the value sub-element, you need to specify the property type as an array. And don't terminate that property with a "/>"

.....
<property name="Client0_Command" type="array">
   <value type="string" value="compiz"/>
</property>
.....

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sushi

Member

Registered: 2019-04-22

Posts: 100

Re: [Solved] Element <value> not allowed inside <property>

Thanks ToZ,

Solved !